Sentences with phrase «at last election»

The Evaluations look at the last election from various points of view including those of voters, candidates and election administrators.

Rather than complaining about the Conservative government, Davey should be reflecting on what cost him his seat and his party such a humiliating routing at the last election.

We believe that an effective Emissions Trading Scheme with realistic targets attached with global action is what the Australian Public voted for at the last election.

As this year's Election Day approaches, let's take a look back at the last election and evaluate the media's influence.

At the last election all three major parties were pushing their «green» credentials, particularly their concern about climate change — even our Tory Prime Minister promised that his government would be the «greenest ever».

Labor had to go through with it no matter how unpopular only because of the drubbing they received at the last election over their failure to follow through with their first plan they ballyhooed at the 2007 election that initially brought them in.

The fact of the matter is that the current leader of the opposition is battling some stiff opposition from his own back benchers who apparently did not hear the message from the Australian people at the last election.

«Labour called for English and maths to 18 at the last election precisely because we want to ensure young people have the skills they need to succeed.»

«At the last election, protecting schools spending and investing huge amounts of extra money towards the poorest pupils was one of our top priorities.

Neil Carmichael, the former chair of the education select committee who lost his seat as an MP at the last election, has been appointed a senior adviser at the political lobbying firm PLMR.

Alison Beane, the executive headteacher of the Solent Academies Trust, which is a group of three special needs schools in Portsmouth, was co-opted at the last election in October.

One was Thurrock, an ultra-marginal between Labour and the Conservatives at the last election that appears to be one of UKIP's best hopes for a gain — here Ashcroft found a four point UKIP lead over Labour in second place, the Tories just a point behind.

The poll puts the Conservatives up one point on last week with 36 per cent - the first time since February 2012 that they have recorded the same share of the vote they got at the last election - ahead of Labour on 32 per cent, down three points.

Does my right honourable friend accept that the millions of people who voted Conservative at the last election in order to make him prime minister did not do so in order to see a reduction in the number of people sent to prison or to see those criminals given softer sentences?

If Labour and the Conservatives had taken 36 % of the vote each at the last election, the Commons constitution committee was told yesterday, Labour would have won 114 more seats.

At the last election there were 21 seats where the number of votes that UKIP got was larger than the number of extra votes the Conservatives needed to win.

For example, five of the six non-officers elected who were MPs at the last election were from the right.

at the present rate, I will not be able to vote conservative at the next election (i live in croydon central - where we won by 80 votes at the last election - so I am one of the lucky few that has a vote that counts).

Today he publishes a psephological analysis which he says supports his belief that those who deserted the party for the Tories at the last election were not high - earning voters but the less well - off; Labour's erstwhile «core» voters have now become «swing» voters.

Well I believe Katie Hopkins endorsed UKIP at the last election.

Great Grimsby was long a very safe Labour seat but Mitchell's majority fell to just 714 at the last election.

All candidates were of the view that the party made only very limited progress at the last election and that one more heave would certainly not suffice.

Vince Cable, Twickenham It was a big shock when Cable, then business secretary, lost his seat as part of the Tories» ruthless decapitation strategy against the Lib Dems at the last election.

Among those made OBEs are Annette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for Mid Dorset and Poole, and Christopher Fraser, who stood down as a Tory MP at the last election.

In May's local elections, we overtook the Tories in the share of the vote, coming from seven points behind at the last election.

This makes sense: these are often places where there remained a good deal of suspicion towards the Conservatives at the last election, even though a plurality were persuaded to vote Tory as it was time for change, and where economic uncertainty will be felt most keenly.

All three said the Tories had made «very limited progress» at the last election.

The Tories» majority in Corby at the last election was 1,951 but since then Labour has established a solid poll lead.

The Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, accused the home secretary of insulting the electorate by acting as if the Conservatives had won an overall majority at the last election in her high - handed treatment of Baker.

Fifty - eight per cent of people who voted Liberal Democrat at the last election wouldn't again.

At the last election, YouGov's eve of vote poll — which successfully predicted Labour and Tory vote share to within 1 % — identified the Tories as the most popular party among working class voters: 32 % of the social demographic C2DE backed the Tories, 31 % Labour and 26 % Lib Dem.

I voted for Zack Goldsmith at the last election but not this time, principally because of his support for the Leave campaign.

At the last election, the Liberals polled 22 per cent of the vote and secured 62 seats.

Illsley was suspended from the Labour party when he was charged after winning his seat at the last election and is now serving his constituency as an independent.

«The Tories have obviously forgotten Harrogate's lesson for Norman Lamont at the last election.

McVey, a former broadcaster who sat in David Cameron's coalition cabinet, was one of the few high - profile scalps claimed by Labour at the last election, when she lost Wirral West.

So, if Labour wins a single vote more than at the last election, when the party hit rock - bottom at 29 %, Ed Miliband will consider that a mandate to continue.

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

Dozens of Conservative MPs expect to learn shortly whether they will be charged with fraud in relation to their spending at the last election, as deadlines for the Crown Prosecution Service to make a decision approaches.

She won a four - cornered final (against three men) to win the nomination for the seat held at the last election for Labour by Jessica Morden with a majority of 6,838 over the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives (who were separated by less than 100 votes in second and third place).

As you will recall, I and other members of Hertsmere Conservative Association worked closely with you at the last election, in Watford, and were tremendously impressed with your hard work and commitment.

CND vice-president Dr Rebecca Johnson — who stood for the Greens at the last election and has taken part in the blockading of the Faslane naval base near Glasgow - will be in Parliament this afternoon to make the case against nuclear weapons.

For different reasons neither party had credible a leader at the last election and we know the results.

A minor party, the Independent Working Class Association, has some strength on the council estates here and returns several councillors, however they have a negligible effect at the last election.

The Scottish elections are designed to make it all but impossible for any one party to have overall control - but the SNP defeated the odds at the last election in 2011, securing the first majority since the opening of Holyrood.

All of this suggests Labour should enjoy some healthy leads in national voting intention polls and the way the vote was distributed in the UK at the last election, that should translate into an easy Labour majority if repeated at an election....

Runnymede points about that the Conservatives made little progress among minority communities at the last election despite a record number of ethnic minority candidates in winnable seats and despite Conservatives like Sayeeda Warsi playing a prominent role in the Tory campaign.

Indeed, the inherent unfairness of the current system was made clear at the last election when Cameron's Tories were 20 MPs short of a Commons majority even though they won 36 per cent of the national vote.»

George fought Mark Oaten at the last election.»

Speaking in PMQs, he rejected Nick Boles's proposals for curtailing certain pension - age handouts, saying that, «at the last election I made a very clear promise about bus passes, about television licences, about winter fuel payments.